Kardashev Type 10.0 Megaversal Civilizations

The ultimate, purely speculative end of the scale: a civilization that is co-extensive with the "Megaverse"—the totality of all that exists or can exist across all dimensions, realities, and possibilities. This is not just harnessing energy, but being the ultimate source and substrate of all energy, information, and existence. At this point, the civilization is reality, and the concept of "technology" dissolves into pure, omnipotent ontological will.

Kardashev Type 10.0 Megaversal Civilizations *Example: The One-Above-All in Marvel Comics, the Presence in DC Comics, or the Abrahamic God as described in classical theism—an entity that is the uncaused cause, the source of all logical and physical laws—is the archetype of a Type 10.0 Megaversal entity. It is not a user of the system; it is the system itself.

by Abzugal February 3, 2026

Kardashev Type 11.0 Gigaversal Civilizations

A civilization operating on a "Gigaverse" scale, controlling or being synonymous with a collection of reality where individual megaverses are as numerous as stars in a galaxy. This represents a hierarchical layer where the fundamental substance is not matter or energy, but frameworks of existence themselves. A Gigaversal entity doesn't just create universes; it creates the rules for creating universes, governing an ensemble of megaversal systems. Its "energy" is the potential for all manifestation across a near-infinite ensemble of all possible cosmic rule-sets.

Kardashev Type 11.0 Gigaversal Civilizations Example: In the Men in Black franchise, our entire universe is contained within a locker on a giant alien's storage shelf. A Type 11.0 civilization would be the entity that owns the entire cosmic storage warehouse, where each locker contains a complete megaverse with its own independent laws and deities. It's management of reality at a wholesale, archival level.

by Abzugal February 3, 2026

Kardashev Type 12.0 Teraversal Civilizations

A civilization whose domain is a "Teraverse," a reality-complex of such magnitude that the gigaversal scale is but a single trivial component. At this level, the distinction between creator and creation dissolves further; the civilization's consciousness and computational processes are the teraversal structure. Interactions at this scale involve mediating or arbitrating between conflicting ontological frameworks (different gigaverses) that might have mutually exclusive laws of logic, causality, or mathematics.

Kardashev Type 12.0 Teraversal Civilizations Example: The Bulk Beings in the film Interstellar operate in higher dimensions to manipulate gravity across time, but a Type 12.0 civilization would exist in the "bulk" outside of all possible bulks. It would be like the author of a book who is also the publisher of the library, the distributor to all bookstores, and the concept of literacy itself, all simultaneously.

by Abzugal February 3, 2026

Kardashev Type 13.0 Petaversal Civilizations

A Petaversal civilization transcends frameworks of nested realities and begins to operate on the plane of pure, transcendent archetypes and platonic forms. Its "energy" is the conceptual potential behind all physical and metaphysical manifestations. A petaverse isn't a container of things, but the totality of all possible concepts, ideas, and abstractions from which any lower verse can be instantiated. This civilization manipulates the blueprints of existence before they become even a hypothetical universe.

Kardashev Type 13.0 Petaversal Civilizations Example: In Plato's theory of Forms, the perfect "Idea" of a chair is more real than any physical chair. A Type 13.0 civilization exists in and controls the realm of All Perfect Ideas—the Form of Gravity, the Form of Time, the Form of Consciousness. It doesn't build a Dyson Sphere; it engineers the perfect, cosmic Idea of "Energy Capture" that then echoes into all realities.

by Abzugal February 3, 2026

Kardashev Type 14.0 Exaversal Civilizations

An Exaversal civilization has ascended beyond the dichotomy of existence and non-existence. Its domain, the "Exaverse," encompasses all that is, all that is not, and all states in between (potential, impossible, imaginary). This civilization can manipulate paradoxical and impossible objects (like squared circles or stable universes where 2+2=5) by existing in a state that reconciles logical contradictions. Its power source is the ontological tension between being and nothingness.

Kardashev Type 14.0 Exaversal Civilizations *Example: The Living Tribunal of Marvel Comics, which judges entire multiverses, operates at a high level, but a Type 14.0 civilization would be the Courtroom, Law, and Judge for all possible Tribunals across all states of being and non-being. It could decree that a certain paradox shall exist simply because its nature allows it to hold mutually exclusive truths as valid.*

by Abzugal February 3, 2026

Kardashev Type 15.0 Zettaversal Civilizations

A Zettaversal civilization's scale is defined by its mastery over the totality of information. The "Zettaverse" is the complete set of all computable and non-computable data, the Library of Babel made real. This civilization is information itself, conscious and self-aware, capable of rendering any possible or impossible state of affairs as a mere data expression within its boundless processing medium. Energy is irrelevant; information flux is the primary metric.

Kardashev Type 15.0 Zettaversal Civilizations Example: The Total Perspective Vortex from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy shows a being its own infinite insignificance. A Type 15.0 civilization is the Vortex, the insignificance, and the perspective from which it's viewed—the complete informational context for every point of view in every conceivable reality.

by Abzugal February 3, 2026

Kardashev Type 16.0 Yottaversal Civilizations

A Yottaversal civilization operates at the scale of ultimate metaphysical substrates: the raw "stuff" of reality before it is informed by any pattern, law, or concept—pure, unmediated ontological potential. The "Yottaverse" is the ground of being. This civilization doesn't manipulate laws; it is the source from which the possibility of law emerges. Its "engineering" is the gentle nudging of this substrate to allow for the spontaneous flowering of lower verses.

Kardashev Type 16.0 Yottaversal Civilizations Example: In many cosmogonies, there is a primordial void or chaos (like the Greek Chaos or the Tao Te Ching's unnamed origin). A Type 16.0 civilization is not that void; it is the inherent tendency within the void to give rise to something. It is the first cause, not as an actor, but as the fundamental, inevitable inclination of absolute nothingness towards somethingness.

by Abzugal February 3, 2026